The Haunted Hat
| The Haunted Hat | |
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Babe Hardy and the cast in a publicity still for The Haunted Hat | |
| Directed by | Will Louis |
| Written by | Arthur Hotaling |
| Produced by | Arthur Hotaling |
| Starring | Will Louis |
Release date |
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| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The Haunted Hat is a 1915 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.[1] It was on a split reel with Avenging Bill.[2]
Plot
This plot summary was printed in The Moving Picture World for August 28, 1915:[3]
[A little black cat] gets under the boss's discarded straw hat, and, being unable to extricate itself, goes on a jaunt, hat and all. The simple town folk had never before seen an auto-hat and seeing this one travel about think it is a [ghost]. Finally the whole town is up in arms, police and fire departments included ; they capture the hat after many hairbreadth escapes and rescue the little black cat. [Note that this description originally used a word that can be perceived as a racist pun, so I put ghost in brackets. The opening words are also in brackets. The original wording is viewable at the link.]
Cast
- Will Louis as The Boss (?probably Willard Louis)
- Oliver Hardy (as Babe Hardy)
See also
External links
References
- ^ Louvish, Simon (2005). Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy. New York: St. Martin's. p. 481. ISBN 978-0-312-32598-5.
- ^ Miller, Blair (2013). Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida. New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7618-5994-9.
- ^ "THE HAUNTED HAT". The Moving Picture World. 25 (9): 1539. August 28, 1915 – via The Internet Archive.